Here is a short report (120-140 characters) I did weeks ago to share with those interested in Business english.

This report aims to assess the performance of new products A, B and C, in terms of turnover in department stores, supermarkets and small shops between 2000 and 2002.

Turnover of department stores made ￡50m in 2000, and stayed unchanged at ￡35m over the following two years.

On the other hand, supermarkets showed a general upward trend, with turnover kept rising from ￡65m in 2000,to ￡70m in 2001, reaching ￡80m in 2002.

However, small shops experienced a lower performance. Turnover of ￡30m was made in 2000, then fell to ￡20m in 2001 before a slight recovery of ￡5m in 2002.

Generally speaking, supermarkets rank first in sales over the 3-year-period, following were department stores and then small shops.

Have you ever understood that...

Easy come easy go

Respect all fear none

Good health is there in the food you hate.

You weakness lies in what you like and hate

Ordinary people don’t know they can be unordinary

You valentine is the most beautiful, your wife is not

Sometimes you just need a woman, while sometimes an angel

You are ignoring some other things when you are pursuing something

To all the heros fighting against the nature disaster, and those searching for true love.

Love is pure

     is what we live for

love is everything

     is beyond compare

love is never late

love is the sun, love is the moon,

love is night and day

love is always near

love is river, love is mountain, love is here and there

love can heal a soul

      can change the world

      can last for ever when you believe.

Some people who read my post " old dramas" may find me kind of nostalgic, yep that's the truth, besides i like songs of different times and have a lot in store.(to be honest I like Rap and rock, too) Somehow, I like to associate this state of mind with sunset.

Do you like sunset?

Golden beach, crystal clear water, and refreshing gentle breeze. Hand in hand with your beloved one. See the flame in her eyes. That’s sunset, as beautiful and romantic as it can get.

However, I have a fear of sunset when it’s a metaphor of old age, even it’s beautiful as depicted in poems.

When you live on memory rather than on aspiration and illusion, you mentally rank in the old, even not physically. No access to every segment of the past,  sweet or bitter; no even a thread of hope of what a surprise coming tomorrow. Like a placid surface of lake without ripple by breeze, and a sunset following which is a dark night-- the end of the day. All they have is memory, which gets heavier and heavier as it rolls.

Feels like my mind is getting old faster than my body.

Maybe i really really need to get some fresh air...

The other day in man's room. Suddenly I found some words on the door in front of me saying " mind your left".

So I looked left, then there it said " mind your right".

So I looked right.

Guess what, on the right it said " mind your own business".

Thanks for reminding.

You may think that an ocean separates us,

or that our governments separate us,

      or that our cultures separate us,

but the People of California and China

        share the knowledge

that when the earth shivers

        beneath our feet,

Suddenly,

     Our Politics, Property and

             Plans do not matter

An earthquake is neither good or bad

            It is only a test

Of the goodness in

          the human heart.

Youku is a very cool website where you can’t miss almost what you want, and don’t have to wait longer than that on Tudou or some other video websites before it works smoothly. So it’s not exaggerated to call it YouTube in China. I had a great time reviewing and reminiscing to the happy old days.

I gotta be out of mind spending hours looking for the old operas shot in the early 1990s that was once on Pearl-river channel, as well as their theme songs. All my memory about TV amusement was cartoon at the dusk and soap opera in the evening because TV programs were not available before sunset.

Cantonese tend to watch TV shows in Cantonese, produced in GD or HK, and the corny dramas once on “soap opera” from 9 pm to 10 pm was the highlight of the day, most of them featuring Martial Art, sometimes love stories showing us a spectacular HK. On the list were 天蚕变，鹿鼎记，情满珠江（canton-produced）…. The others from Taiwan were 包青天，新白娘子传奇（legend of the white snake, and a lot more beyond I can list.

Do those names ring a bell to you?

The next day of mother's day, how many families were tore to pieces. No longer is saying that "Mom I love you" for some people, everything about the family is the history, even he survive from the disaster, he could never survive from the grief of losing his beloved family overnight. It's a tragedy, of the victims, of Sichuan, of china...we are experiencing the worst time in the decades!!

Can't bear to see pictures of tears, blood, dusty faces... can't believe the increasing death toll, can't hold back my tears on reading so many touching stories of the rescue troop, volunteers, and help from all walks of life. Premier Wen vowed," we will never give up as long as there is a thread of hope". His tearstained eyes, cracked voice, were always there bringing hope to the victims.

A lesson was learned out of a hard way, for which we paid too high a cost.

However rich or poor you are, however you look, when it's the fate of human being you just can't escape. No one knows when and where the demon of death comes back again. That left us pondering the meaning of life, how lucky we are that we still can breathe, can see sunrise for every new day, can decide which song you like best and put it into your mp3, decide what we eat for lunch... every little small thing never come easy, for someone out there it's a luxury, you believe it or not.

A long or short life we will live doesn’t matter, what matters is the meaning we give it.

It's  a  magical  test and  interesting game,  with  98%  reliable  results.

OK, make a wish….

Game starts, please answer the following 4 questions one by one, write down your answers on a paper, NO PEEKING at the answers. At the end you will be told of the real you.

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1)       Rank the following 5 different animals in the order of your fondness. (start from your favorite)

cow      tiger      sheep        horse    pig

2)     Tell me how you feel about them respectively with an adjective. (Chinese allowed)

Dog      cat        rat         coffee      sea

3)     Think of someone whom you know and important to you, and associate the colors with each of them. (one color with one person)

Yellow       jacinth(橘红色)       red          white      green

4)     Name your favorite day in a week.

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Finished?  Doublecheck your real answers, it’s the last chance to have a change.

Now read the explication bellow. Are you ready?

Q1 tests what is the most important thing to you. Cow refers to your business and career, while tiger to self-confidence, sheep to love, horse to family, and pig to money.

Q2, The descrīption of dog is of your personality, while that of cat is of your beloved one, that of rat is of your enemy (someone you hate), that of coffee is of your attitude to sex, that of sea is of your future.

Q3, Yellow stands for someone you will never forget, jacinth is your lifelong real friend, red is your most beloved, white is your soul mate, and green is someone you always remember, like yellow.

Q4, Rumor has it that your wish will come true on that day within a week.

Is it amazing?

 Foshan shunxiang non-dust paper Co., Ltd. is a professional manufacturer of static-free and dust-free cleaning paper, whose products sell good in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, the U.S. and some European countries, thanks to Its excellent total quality management  that makes its products rank at a high level in quality and stability, as good as those of global name brands, and its efficient production cost control that promises a competitive price, over 30% lower than that of other competing products.

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毛泽东同志是20世纪最有影响力的世界伟人之一，他用运筹帷幄决胜于千里之外的卓越军事才能带领苦难的中国人民推翻三座大山，缔造了崭新的社会主义中国，同时他行有余力的诗词创作，艺术性很高，大部分是经典之作，脍炙人口，万人咏唱，如黄钟大吕，震撼着人们的心灵，回荡与诗界的天空，这无论是从中国诗词史以及文学史，还是从当代世界文学史上看都是一种相当罕见的文学景观。毛泽东的诗词是他几十年革命实践的产物，是一个民族浴血奋战的英雄史诗，因此必然的成为中华民族文学宝库中无可替代的珍品，占据着一席特殊的位置。他的大部分传世词作都蕴涵着豪迈激情和深厚的使命感，本文将着力分析之。

 Chairman Mao was one of the most influential giant of the 20^th century. He was a predominant military talent, under whose leadership the Chinese people triumphed in the war against the old forces home and abroad, thus building up a new China. He is also an outstanding poet, whose works win universal praise with very good value in art and literature, heart-quaking and resounding, which are infrequent in the human literature history. His poetry comes form the practice of revolution and war, represents the history of a heroical nation, plays an important role in Chinese cultural treasury which is invaluable and irreplaceable. And the thesis will focus on his works featuring the passion and the sense of mission.